Package for safety pins and the like



' 0a. 30, 1934. G R PETERSON 1,979,049

PACKAGE FOR SAFETY PINS AND THE LIKE Filed Oct. 7, 1932 W MINVENTOR' Ma i A TTO EYS.

package for sale.

Patented Oct. 30, 1934 UNITED STATES PACKAGE FOR SAFETY PINS AND THE LIKE Gunnard P. Peterson, Naugatuck, Conn, assignor to The Risdon Manufacturing Company, a corporation of Connecticut Application October 7, 1932, Serial No. 636,643

4 Claims.

The invention is an improvement in safety pin holders or packages of the key ring type in which the pins are strung on a wire loop like keys on a key ring, thus forming a commercial unit or This type of safety pin package has obvious advantages over the prior method of packaging safety pins, which consisted in pinning them to strips of paper or cardboard, but lacks the'advantage that the cardboard provided in that the key ring type of package affords no convenient place on which the maker may place his name or trade-mark, or other desired markings. The object of the present invention is to provide a key ring type holder, on which space of adequate dimensions can be provided for the trade-mark and other markings, without increasing the bulk of the package as a whole and without appreciably increasing the cost of production.

The invention is illustrated in its preferred form in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 shows the new holder with the pins indicated as being on it and in its normal position. Figure 2 a larger scale detail of the separable joint of the ring or loop and its keeper and Figure 3 a cross section of Figure 2 on line III-III.

The holder is constituted of a loop of springwire 1 on which the safety pins as indicated are strung. The two ends of the wire meet in abutting register within a snugly fitting sleeve 2 which serves as a keeper holding the ends in alinement with each other. The resilience of the wire loop normally presses itsends against each other within the keeper sleeve, but either end can be withdrawn from the sleeve by flexing the loop when it is desired to remove the pins. This position of the ends of the wire loop is indicated in Fig. 2.

The keeper sleeve 2 is formed as part of a flat metal tag 3 by properly curling over one end of the latter as indicated in Fig. 3 and the central or intermediate part of the sleeve 2 is cut away to form a window exposing the abutting ends of the wire. This exposure of the junction of the two ends of the wire is an important feature, in that it is found that with such window the user of the package instantly recognizes the way in which it is intended to be operated for the removal of pins; without such window the user may be puzzled. The body of the loop may have any desired configuration and is preferably olfset or provided with a shoulder 4 on each side of the sleeve 2, which will keep the latter from tegral part of the keeper sleeve 2 affords a surface on each side on which the makers name, trade-mark and other information can be placed as indicated in the drawing, and it also affords a convenient handle by which the bunch of pins can be picked up and shaken when necessary to untangle them. The sleeve does not require to be specially attached to either end or limb of the wire loop and may therefore be rotated about such wire, that is, about the sleeve axis. Such rotation will be a fiatwise rotation with reference to the tag itself, and because of this fact it will be apparent that the size of the tag may be as large as desired without increasing the bulk of the package as a whole, inasmuch as the tag can and normally does occupy or coincide with the plane of the loop. There is thus provided adequate space for all the markings that are required without increasing the bulk of the package and without increasing the cost of production thereof, inasmuch as the keeper and tag are produced at substantially the same cost as the keeper alone.

The following is claimed:

1. A package for safety pins and the like, comprising'a spring wire loop with abutting ends and on which the pins are strung, a flat trademark tag having one end curled to form a rotary sleeve embracing the abutting end portions of the wire and being rotatable fiatwise about the wire, whereby the tag may be folded substantially into the plane of the loop to form a compact package, and shoulders on the wire at the ends of said sleeve forming stops against endwise movement thereof.

2. A package for safety pins and the like, comprising a spring wire loop on which the pins are strung, a keeper sleeve embracing the abutting ends of the wire, offsets or shoulders on the wire to confine the keeper sleeve in position thereon, a window in the sleeve, and a tag on said keeper sleeve rotatable fiatwise about the wire.

3. A package for safety pins and the like, comprising a wire loop on which the pins are strung and a keeper sleeve for the abutting ends of the wire having a window therein through which said abutting ends may be observed.

4. A package for safety pins and the like, comprising a wire loop on which the safety pins are strung, a keeper sleeve for the abutting ends of the wire having a window therein through which said ends may be observed, and a tag on said sleeve adapted to occupy the plane of the loop.

GUNNARD P. PETERSON. 

